Chapter 1: Winter
After several days of snowfall, the ridges, the treetops, and the ground were covered with a layer of frost, and the light reflected in the mule-covered window lattices was much brighter than usual, and the room had a kind of crystal light.
Eleven Niang put down the half-read "Chronicles of the Nine Domains of the Great Zhou" and pushed the window to look.
The trees outside the tower are all covered with a thick layer of snow, and occasionally when the wind blows, the snow pompoms resting on the boxwood treetops fall in a row, revealing green leaves, which makes people feel refreshed.
It turned out that Yuhang, where she was located, was in the northwest of Hangzhou Prefecture, with Dadi Mountain in the southwest and Jingshan Mountain in the northwest. There is Tiaoxi in the south, which originates from Tianmu Mountain in Qianxian County......
There is too little information!
She had also been to Yuhang before, but that time it was a business trip. The wife of the person concerned took the child and hid back to her hometown in Yuhang. She approached Yu Hang and persuaded the client's wife to give up custody of the child. As a lawyer, she was paid a seven-figure sum. This is the first pot of gold in her career!
Thinking of this, Eleven Niang couldn't help but sigh.
What's the use of thinking about all of this now!
After coming here for three years, the farthest place she has been to is the second gate of the inner house of Luofu - sending the eldest wife of Luofu, that is, her mother-in-law Xu, to Ci'an Temple to offer incense.
What does Yuhang look like now? How far is it from Hangzhou? What does it have to do with her?
What's the use of knowing all this and seeing it with your own eyes?
This world is no longer the other!
Eleven Niang sighed - as if she wanted to blow away all the previous things with this breath!
"Miss Eleven!" When the maid Binju came in with hot tea and small shortbread, she happened to see Shi Niang's forehead against the window lattice on the side, "You opened the window again." There is a north wind today. As she spoke, she put the tea tray on the small table on the side and stepped forward to pick her up, "Today is a shortbread filled with plum blossoms, you can taste it." ”
Three years ago, the body fell and was in a coma for three months, and then lay in bed for another six months. If it weren't for the careful care of Binju and another maid, Holly, she wouldn't have been able to survive even if she somehow wore it into this body.
Eleven Niang couldn't bear to brush off her kindness, sat down at the table obediently, took the hot tea she handed and took a sip.
Mellow black tea with a little bee – her favorite.
Eleven Niang's eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly, revealing a satisfied expression.
Binju looked at it, the corners of his mouth curled, and he turned around to close the window lattice.
Suddenly there was a knocking sound from upstairs. The sound above the head makes people panic.
Binju's face changed, she looked up at Chengchen, and was about to say something, but Eleven Niang had already said like chanting: "Bear her, let her, avoid her, let her, bear her, ignore her, in a few years, you look at her!" ”
There was a "flutter" laugh at the door.
Eleven Niang and Binju couldn't help but follow the prestige, a girl wearing a pink bichic, carrying a stone blue baggage, was standing by the curtain.
"Sister Holly!" Binju's eyes lit up, "You're back!" As he spoke, he went up to help her carry the baggage.
Holly is from Yu County, her sister got married, and the eldest wife gave five days off, and today is the fourth day, but I didn't expect her to come back before noon.
"Why don't you stay home a little longer?" Eleven Niang smiled, "There are not many opportunities like this!" ”
"There's so much to do." Holly Ren Binju took over his burden: "My brother married my sister-in-law, and I have added a nephew in the past few years, and the family is already narrow, and I have to vacate the house when I go back...... It's better not to go back. ”
In the past two years, Holly's family has relied on her monthly allowance as a big girl. Last summer, her brother wanted to buy the land next door, and her sister-in-law came to the house to find her, asking her to help borrow some money.
Seeing Holly's expression a little stunned, Binju smiled: "What is it for this time?" and poured a cup of tea for Holly.
At that time, Binju borrowed five taels of silver to Holly, and Eleven Niang gave her two red gold hairpins.
Holly avoided the topic and smiled and untied the burden that Binju put on the round table: "My mother made a few pairs of shoes for the young lady, let me bring them back......"
While they were talking, the "dong dong" upstairs did not stop, and this time it became more urgent, and the noise was unpeaceful.
The three people downstairs still looked the same, as if they were sitting in a garden with a gentle spring breeze.
“…… This emerald handkerchief is for Hamaju ...... This is the soybean sauce for the ...... of Mother Xin"
"Sauce soybeans again this year?" Hearing this, Binju smiled, "It seems that your family has a good harvest this year...... Miss also loves to eat, you should bring more back......"
Holly was a little embarrassed.
The family was very thoughtful, and even Mother Xin, who was doing rough work in Miss Eleven's house, brought things, but she didn't even mention a word of repayment......
She didn't know how to explain it, but Eleven Niang asked her with a smile: "Can you go to your mother to thank you?" ”
Holly hurriedly said, "Go." I also met Xu's mother and gave two jars of soy sauce soybeans. ”
Eleven Niang smiled and nodded. took the shoes that Holly made for her left and right: "Holly, your mother's craftsmanship is so good......"
"Needless to say." Binju smiled on the side, "Sister Holly just got the true inheritance!" ”
I don't know why, Eleven Niang remembered that she would be in college...... After the Spring Festival, the school started, and everyone brought back the specialties of their hometown to taste the sisters in the same dormitory...... It's just yourself, and the bag is always the most expensive snack you can buy in the supermarket......
The expression on her face couldn't help but be a little gloomy.
Holly looked at it and couldn't help but think of what she had been worried about.
"Miss Eleven," there was some uneasiness in her voice, "is it for my business......
Eleven Niang was stunned, and only after a moment did she understand what she was talking about.
The holly man is beautiful, calm, and good at needlework, and is taken by Yao's mother, who is next to the eldest wife, and wants to make her a daughter-in-law to her nephew. It's just that Yao's mother's nephew is not only obscene, but also likes to prostitute and gamble, not to mention Eleven Niang, even Holly can't look down on him. A few years ago, Yao's mother came to mention it to Eleven Niang. Eleven Niang's front foot also promised to be good, what can she say to marry Yao's mother, that is the blessing of holly, as soon as Yao's mother left, she took the back foot to the eldest lady to go to the eldest wife, while beating the eldest lady's legs, while asking the eldest lady blankly: "...... Yao's mother said that her nephew was looking at the girl all over the yard, and he fell in love with Holly...... I've been with Holly every day, and I don't know where his nephew has seen Holly......"
The eldest lady has been a little indifferent to Yao's mother since then, and this matter is naturally yellow. But the beams of Eleven Niang and Yao's mother are also married!
After a while, the eldest lady began to reuse Yao's mother again. Yao's mother also straightened her waist, and she also spoke: "Look, in two years, I will let that little slut lie down under my nephew and let him ride ......"
The unwritten rule of this rich family of the Great Zhou Dynasty is that if the maid is not matched by the age of twenty, she will be released, so as not to violate the harmony of heaven.
Holly is eighteen years old......
Aunt Lu, the biological mother of Eleven Niang, couldn't help but persuade her: "Why bother to have a knot with Yao's mother for a maid...... She's the eldest lady's roommate...... You don't know where your own way out is, and you offend people for a maid......"
Thinking of this, Eleven Niang was a little irritable.
For Holly, she doesn't regret it.
Living in a place full of women like the Luo family's compound, people who are good will be bullied, and they can't even protect their own maids, who will put you in their eyes. What's more, Holly has also paid a lot for her......
She worries about her future!
A concubine, beautiful, and a mother who is not spoiled...... The fate is all in the hands of the eldest lady.
If the eldest lady is just a woman who can be fooled by saying a few good words, it is easy to say, but she was born in the Qiantang family, and her father was tired of being an official to the Ministry of Rites. Married to the Luo family at the age of thirteen, and took charge of the family at the age of fifteen, there were six aunts around the eldest master, except for Aunt Ke, who was the personal maid of the eldest lady, gave birth to a concubine who was nine years younger than the eldest son, and the other children either died young, or were daughters...... Every time she saw the eldest lady's quiet face like a bodhisattva, Shi Niang was a little nervous.
The thought flashed, and Eleven Niang couldn't help but look up at Chengchen above her head with a strange expression.
The building has three rooms and two floors. On the first floor, there are eleven mothers living in the east, twelve mothers living in the west, and ten mothers living upstairs.
Eleventh Niang's biological mother, Aunt Lu, and Shi Niang's biological mother, Aunt Yang, fought for most of their lives, and in the end, the two aunts were cleaned up by Twelfth Niang's biological mother, Aunt Lu...... When Shi Niang remembered it, she asked the maid to knock on the floor with a big stick and mallet, which made the two of them uneasy.
Eleventh Niang can calm down, after all, there is a mature soul in her body, and Twelve Niang, who is only seven years old, is as calm as her, so she can't help but be impressed.
"Sister Holly, don't worry." Seeing that Eleven Niang didn't say a word, and the joyful atmosphere in the house disappeared, Binju smiled and comforted Holly, "Aren't there two more years?" Miss is so smart, she will definitely be able to figure out a way in these two years! ”
Holly's expression darkened, and she stopped talking.
Eleven Niang looked at her heart and thought of the look on her face when Holly came back.
Her expression was a little serious, and she asked, "Holly, did Mother Yao send someone to your house to propose marriage?" ”
Holly lowered her eyelids.
The guess was silently confirmed, and a fire burst out of Eleven Niang's heart.
She snorted coldly, and was about to say something, when the voice of the little maid Qiu Ju was deliberately raised outside: "Mother Yao, why are you here with such a big snow?" Quick, get inside and get a hot cup of tea to get rid of the cold. ”
The people in the room were stunned.
Binju had already pulled Eleven Niang's sleeve with a pale face: "What should I do?" What to do? ”
Holly's usually gentle gaze also had a bit sharpening.
"What are you panicking about?" Eleven Niang stood up with a smile, and instructed the two of them with a calm expression: "Holly, you go and take out the big red robe that the eldest lady rewarded last time to entertain the guests." Binju, you went to welcome Yao's mother in. ”
Her composure infected Holly and Hamachi.
The two of them said "no" and were about to go their separate ways, but Yao's mother had already opened the curtain and entered herself, looking at the three people in the room with a smile: "Miss Eleven, the eldest lady, please come over." ”
(Open a new pit, welcome to click, collect, recommend...... As for the pink ticket, "Crossing Good Things and Grinding" needs it this month, and "Raiders of the Concubine" needs it next month. (*^__^*) hee hee ...... Squeak wants to participate in PK and wants to book. )